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Chennai/Villupuram, Apr 8 (PTI) A remark allegedly made by AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami targeting Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday triggered a controversy and the latter strongly condemned the comment and asserted that he was not afraid of death and that he would go to any extend to protect the people. Palaniswami, addressing a poll rally in Chennai, had asked: "During the DMK regime, was there drought, flood or cyclone? or did the coronavirus pandemic break out? There was nothing; ...Read More >
Congress chief K Selvaperunthagai to contest from Sriperumbudur The Congress on Friday released a list of 27 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. The Congress will fight the polls in the southern state in alliance with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) . Tamil Nadu will vote in a single phase on April 23 for 234-member assembly. DMK is contesting in 164 seats. Earlier in the day, the BJP also announced a list of 27 candidates, fielding Union minister L Murugan from Avanashi ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 16 (PTI) Economist and former CPI(M) leader Prasenjit Bose joined the Congress during a programme in the metropolis, and asserted that he would support the party in its fight to "save the Constitution". Bose (51) became a part of the Congress at a formal joining ceremony here on Monday in the presence of party leaders Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Syed Naseer Hussain and Kanhaiya Kumar, besides state unit president Subhankar Sarkar. "We have to protect the Constitution, establish a government ...Read More >
Chennai, Sep 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu is set to hold its much-anticipated annual 'Mupperum Vizha' festival on Wednesday at Kodangipatti near Karur, marking a major political and cultural gathering for the party. Traditionally, the DMK observes September 17 as its founding day, which coincides with the birth anniversary of social reformer Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, as well as the remembrance of former Chief Minister and party founder C.N. Annadurai (popularly known as Anna). ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Terming power as responsibility and not a means to acquire posts, Chief Minister M K Stalin said politics was to serve the people, which was not a luxury but a hard work that had impelled the DMK, working with the people and functioning as their voice, to bring about changes for the betterment of the people and the society. Launching the 'Anbu Karangal' (Loving Hands) welfare scheme as part of the Thaiyumanavar scheme to provide an assistance of Rs 2000 per month to children without pa ...Read More >
Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay addressed a rally in Tiruchirappalli. Audio problems plagued his 20-minute speech. Supporters chanted his name amidst the unclear address. Vijay questioned the DMK government's unfulfilled promises from the 2021 election. He criticized the DMK regime regarding an illegal kidney sale racket. Vijay highlighted Tiruchirappalli's historical significance in Dravidian politics. Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay's address from atop his campaign vehicle on Saturd ...Read More >
Trichy (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 15 (ANI): Trichy City Police have registered three cases against Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) cadres for allegedly violating conditions and damaging public and private property during a vehicle rally near the MGR statue at Marakkadai in the city on Sept 13. Cases were booked at Cantonment (TNPPDL Act), Gandhi Market (U/s 296(b), 324(5) BNS) and Srirangam (TNOPPD Act) police stations. TVK district president Karikalan, along with four party functionaries, ...Read More >
Trichy (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 14 (ANI): Tamil Nadu School Education Minister and Trichy South District DMK Secretary Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi on Sunday criticised TVK chief Vijay, saying that he lacks proper campaign planning and should prepare well if he wants his message to reach the public. While speaking to the media at the party Trichy South District office, he said, His campaign lacks planning. Even his mic went off mid-speech. If he wants to convey clear messages to the people, h ...Read More >
Stalin said DMK cadres were disciplined and a dedicated lot who always evinced interest in constructive activities.Source : X Chennai, Sep 13 (PTI) The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was not a movement that disrupted public tranquility through the din of a large gathering, but one that preserved the state's unique identity and built modern Tamil Nadu, DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Saturday. In a veiled attack on actor-politician Vijay's maiden state-wide tour from Tiruchirappa ...Read More >
Chennai, Sep 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and DMK president M.K. Stalin has said that the upcoming 'Mupperum Vizha' in Karur on September 17 will be a parade of unity and determination, demonstrating the party's resolve to secure victory in the 2026 Assembly elections and to take on the twin challenge posed by the BJP and the AIADMK. In a letter to party cadre, CM Stalin described the meeting as a rallying point for reaffirming commitment to the Dravidian movement's ideals a ...Read More >
Tiruchirappalli: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay's address from atop his campaign vehicle here on Saturday was marred by audio issues and out of his 20-minute speech, barely one to two minutes was audible and clear. Cadres, fans and the people who had gathered in thousands chanted 'Vijay, Vijay' as his speech became almost incomprehensible barring some remarks, words and points. "Will you vote for the DMK? he asked after raising a number of questions seeking to push the Chief Minister M K ...Read More >
Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 13 (ANI): Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam(TVK) Chief Vijay launched his state-wide campaign from Tiruchirappalli. TVK Chief Vijay delivered a fiery speech questioning the ruling DMK over its unfulfilled electoral promises mentioned in thier 2021 election manifesto. Addressing a massive crowd, Vijay began his speech with a reference to tradition, saying, In the olden days, before going to war, people would first visit their family deity for blessings. Sim ...Read More >
Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu), Sep 13 (PTI) Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay's address from atop his campaign vehicle here on Saturday was marred by audio issues and out of his 20-minute speech, barely one to two minutes was audible and clear. Cadres, fans and the people who had gathered in thousands chanted 'Vijay, Vijay' as his speech became almost incomprehensible barring some remarks, words and points. "Will you vote for the DMK? he asked after raising a number of questions seeking to p ...Read More >
Chennai, Aug 29 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday announced that he would unveil a portrait of rationalist leader Thanthai Periyar (E V Ramasamy) at the University of Oxford on September 4 during his visit to England. He would release two books that chronicled the hundred-year journey and living legacy of the Self-respect movement founded by Ramasamy in 1925. "Periyar goes global! 'Oppression is my enemy,' the rallying cry of Periyar now resonates at #Oxford," Stalin said in ...Read More >
New Delhi: The death sentence of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death in Yemen, has been postponed for the time being. She was to be executed by shooting today, July 16. According to media reports, activist groups and influential religious leaders intervened in the matter, after which the death sentence of Nimisha Priya was postponed. Earlier, many efforts were also made at the diplomatic level to save Nimisha from the death penalty. There is also news that the victim's family ...Read More >
Salem: A 16ft tall bronze statue of former chief minister and DMK patriarch the late M Karunanidhi at Anna Park here was defaced by unidentified miscreants, who splashed black paint on it, on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday.According to an official source, it was the visitors to the park who first found the statue defaced with black paint on Tuesday morning and alerted police.A team of police, headed by assistant commissioner K M Aswini, visited the spot immediately and initiated an ...Read More >
Chennai, Jul 15 (PTI) The ManipalCigna Health Insurance Company Ltd has planned to expand its footprint in Tamil Nadu with 10 more branches and add over 10,000 advisors across South India. ManipalCigna Health Insurance Company Ltd is a joint venture between Manipal Group, an eminent player in healthcare delivery and higher education and global health services company Cigna Healthcare. Also Read | Aadhaar Free Update: Government Requests Parents to Update Children's Aadhaar Biometrics Between A ...Read More >
CHENNAI: DMK allies Left parties and MDMK on Tuesday strongly condemned the desecration of former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's statue in Salem by unidentified miscreants who splashed it with black paint. In a statement issued on Monday, CPM state secretary P. Shanmugham stated that a bronze statue installed a few months ago in front of Anna Nagar Park in Salem had been defaced. It was a deliberate act of insult by anti-social elements, he said, describing it as part of a growing pattern of ta ...Read More >
TIRUCHY/TIRUVARUR: While exhorting students to follow the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, BR Ambedkar and Periyar, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday warned them to stay away from Nathuram Godse's supporters. "Students should never follow the path of Godse but instead follow the one laid down by Ambedkar, Periyar and Gandhi," Stalin said during the inaugural ceremony of the Global Jamalians Block at Jamal Mohamed College. Noting that the college was founded by Jamal Mohamed and Khaja Mian Rowther ...Read More >
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday called on students to uphold the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr B.R. Ambedkar, and Periyar, while strongly advising them against following "divisive ideologies like that of Nathuram Godse". Addressing students at Jamal Mohamed College in Tiruchirappalli during the inauguration of the institution's platinum jubilee celebrations, the Chief Minister hailed the college's founders, N.M. Khajamian Rowther and M. Jamal Mohamed Sahib, for establ ...Read More >
CHENNAI: VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan on Tuesday criticised AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, questioning whether AIADMK members are loyal followers of former Chief Minister and late party supremo J Jayalalithaa, who had vowed that the AIADMK would never align with the BJP,or mere footsoldiers of Amit Shah. "We were once in an alliance with the BJP, realised our mistake, and have not repeated it since. Late AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa had vowed that the AIADMK would never alig ...Read More >
Chennai, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major political announcement, the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) on Friday named its President, actor-turned-politician Vijay, as the party's Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. The decision was made at the party's executive committee meeting held at its headquarters in Panaiyur on the outskirts of Chennai. Over 1,000 party functionaries, including district-level executives, attended the gathering. Vijay also unveiled t ...Read More >
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 2 (ANI): A case has been registered against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader K Annamalai, Hindu Munnani state president Kadeswara Subramaniam, and several others for allegedly making political and communal remarks during the Murugan Devotees Conference held in Madurai on June 22, according to the officials. The event, organised by the Hindu Munnani, was conducted under strict conditions imposed by the city police and the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Cou ...Read More >
CHENNAI: In 2012, a 89-year-old Dr Kalaignar Karunanidhi chose to join Twitter (renamed X later). For someone who mesmerised lakhs with a unique voice, astounding command over the Tamil language for 75 years, Twitter was simply the next stage, a tool to stay connected with the people he loved and lived for. That impulse to listen, to learn and stay ahead of the curve is the lifeblood of the DMK. Ours is a movement that survived censorship, imprisonment, political vendettas and cultural attacks, ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Squarely blaming the BJP for the tussle between the father and son in the PMK, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K Selvaperunthagai on Friday said that the BJP was creating the confusion in the regional party the same way it did in the other parties it allied with (referring to other states where the saffron party broke into alliance parties). Talking to media persons after meeting Dr Ramadoss in Thailapuram, Selvaperunthagai said, "BJP is creating the confusion. Whichever ...Read More >
TIRUCHY: VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan on Thursday said that he will be part of an alliance that doesn't include the BJP or PMK. Speaking to reporters in Tiruchy, Thiruma pointed out that the PMK and DMDK are not currently part of the NDA, adding that the AIADMK and BJP are left alone. "At the same time, we have been confronting a question continuousl,y whether VCK will continue the DMK alliance if PMK joins the front. We have consciously decided to opt for the alliance sans BJP and PMK", stres ...Read More >
Chennai, Jun 26 (PTI) AIADMK top leader Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday wondered if Chief Minister MK Stalin and the DMK had locus standi to utter Dravidian icon C N Annadurai's name and slammed the CM for "speaking politics in government function." Palaniswami's tirade follows Stalin's "AIADMK has mortgaged the name of Anna itself," jibe. Alleging that the chief minister did nothing for the people during the past 4-year rule of the DMK, Palaniswami said the AIADMK was founded by late leader ...Read More >
Chennai, Jun 26 (PTI) AIADMK top leader Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday wondered if Chief Minister MK Stalin and the DMK had locus standi to utter Dravidian icon C N Annadurai's name and slammed the CM for "speaking politics in government function." Palaniswami's tirade follows Stalin's "AIADMK has mortgaged the name of Anna itself," jibe. Alleging that the chief minister did nothing for the people during the past 4-year rule of the DMK, Palaniswami said the AIADMK was founded by late leader ...Read More >
Chennai: DMK and its allies continued criticism of AIADMK for participating in the BJP's recent Murugan meet that denigrated Dravidian icons 'Periyar' E V Ramasamy and C N Annadurai. VCK Chief Thol Thirumavalavan expressed shock over the AIADMK's continuance in the NDA despite insults to its party ideologues and asked the party to rethink ties with the BJP. MMK leader M H Jawahirullah too accused AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami of mortgaging his party's principles.These statement ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Axiom-4 crew members, including Shubhanshu Shukla, were welcomed with hugs and drinks as they stepped into the International Space Station on Thursday. The newly launched spacecraft -- the fifth in the Dragon series and named Grace -- successfully completed a soft docking with the International Space Station at 4.01pm while orbiting above the North Atlantic Ocean."At 6:31 am EDT (4:01 IST) on Thursday, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station for the four ...Read More >
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